The USA Needs To Rein In Their Own Misgivings
About What's Best For Sri Lanka!

While A top U.S. State Department official begins a visit to war-torn
Sri Lanka on Tuesday what seems to be the objective in the alleged blunt
message as reported on Yahoo News?It has been reported that he is expected
to give the Government by way of advice as well as addressing any rights
abuses by the security forces and also cautioning the Government to
rein in paramilitaries as though the USA does not have far greater priorities
in cleaning up their own disastrous indiscretions in Iraq where the
rights abuses by the US Forces becomes visible on a daily basis in a
worthless war which has thus far accomplished little beyond great chagrin
for both the people of Iraq as well as the families of almost 2000 dead
military personel which may also extend into Afghanistan for the record
. The only justification there if the temptations to safeguard the Oil
wealth as a probablr acquisition for benevolent sources was ignored
would be the fight to eliminate International Terrorism which is being
discouraged as applicable to Sri Lanka and what kind of a double standard
is that?

Does it ever occur to the broadcasters of such messages with or without
the sanctioning of the US Governments publicity sources that the situation
in Sri Lanka relates to a Sovereign Democratic Nation embroiled in a
war against terrorism far beyond the cause of what the United States
is involved in Iraq?Is this bureaucratic meddling by the United States
into the internal affairs of Sri Lanka while also playing the bully
given its powerhouse status?If the veracity of this information is in
anyway confirmable then the US surely seems to be indulging in a double
standard where they are conducting an illegal war in Iraq and projecting
their opinions to the contrary when it comes to the case of Sri Lanka
which seems confusing or perhaps the confusions lie in the directions
of the USA itself!

It is reported that the USA's Central Asian Affairs Bureau has warned
the Government of Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers on a previous trip in November
that there was no military solution to the island's two-decade civil
war, but both sides by making such a statement they are making the primary
mistake of placing the LTTE Terrorists and the Government of Sri Lanka
on an equal footing while ironically the USA has proscribed and banned
the LTTE! Why does it seem incomprehensible to the more rational minded
that the USA is preaching a theme of desisting from a military approach
to Sri Lanka's terrorist problem while they are going about trying to
resolving the problem in Iraq(which is not really their concern!) using
the same tactics which have been presented to Sri Lanka as unacceptable
namely military ?

Has the USA now developed a very convenient blindness to what the world
sees as the core of modern terrorism as well as an axis of intolerable
evil stemming from continued tolerance of the Tamil Tiger terrorists
who aren't even accepted as a whole by their own Tamil community which
has decided to discard them and condemn their attrocities? Does this
not. whether inadvertently or not spur on the terrorists further who
now boast even a marginal aerial capability as well as the latest bragging
about an intended submarine in coastal waters equipped to further escalate
their attrocities irrespective of its reality but cause enough for concern
while the insensitivities of a blinkered US Administration continues
to preach the merits of moderation against the LTTE rather than joining
in fully and without reservation to put them down once and for all given
their unrelenting attitude?

Their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has continued to scoff at moderation
and has vowed to take their struggle to the highest level possible by
way of aggression to gain secession and perhaps high time the US came
down from its high horse and aligned itself with the reality to what
the LTTE really signify and the felt need there is at present within
Sri Lanka to eliminate them rather than bargain with them inasmuch as
one would in trying to tame and curb a force of rabid canines!
There are some analysts who wonder why this sudden attitude change from
the US which seemed to align themselves towards acceptance or perhaps
resignation towards responding to the LTTE militarily( although not
professed in so many words!) according to some recent reports and whether
it has anything to do with Britain's decision last week to suspend around
$3 million in debt relief aid, citing concerns about human rights abuses
and mushrooming defence spending, a move Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister
dismissed on Monday as insignificant and downplayed its significance
comprehensively as the point in case relates to Sri Lanka's primary
need to rid the nation completely of terrorism which could spread to
the entire region of South Asia before it becomes a household word globally.

Strangely most of the recent responses by both the USA the EU and Great
Britain seem to be hinged on a response to the carefully planned sympathy
lobby conducted by the LTTE and their affiliates mostly through lies
and innuendo, who are almost totally responsible for much that is wrong
in Sri Lanka and with a little help from scattered Tamil Diaspora and
various influential sections of the International Community appear to
have managed to sway the composure of a once non terrorist friendly
perspective from these countries into one which seems to accord terrorism
a respite while naming the Sovereign Nation trying to be rid of them
as the source which needs to be cautioned and culpable, so what a load
of unprecedented rubbish is that?

The Sri Lankan government certainlly needs no lectures from the USA
or anyone for that matter that they are responsible for law and order
in areas under their control and that they should make changes to address
accountability in the security forces, which is an affront and a disrespect
to a sovereign nation and the foreign diplomat who has requested anonymity
while making this information available to the general public was probably
laughing to himself and asking himself whether or not this was another
clear cut case of Bush Administration bungling with the transparencies
towards it so visible?

Regardless of what the The International Community" believes in"!!
they had better beleive that the Karuna group in the East is a much
awaited panacea to Sri Lanka's huge dilemma regarding the LTTE scourge
and there is no reason for them to be reined in purely on the insistence
of "the Big Bully " America who insists on it as they have
no right to make such assertions or lay down such conditions which would
be tantamounr to interference! Perhaps the person /persons who have
made such Comments needs to be educated towards the reality that the
Karuna Faction might be regarded as THE catalyst all important to the
Sri Lankan Government's emphatic need of the day and if the motivations
of the USA towards discouraging Sri Lanka's empathy towards the Karuna
faction are based on any credibility it has to be then interpereted
as an LTTE friendly gesture on the part of the USA which must be chided
and condemned!

Perhaps the US Government might rest easy if what transpires as Governmental
empathy towards Col. Karuna and his group of intelligent, non rabid,
visionary Tamils far removed from the murderous killers the LTTE have
some significance! They are gradually surfacing as the most likely and
legitimate group of Tamils equipped to resolve the woes of all Sri Lankan
Tamils as well as winning the confidences of All Sri Lankans through
their contributuions towards eliminating the evil band of terrorists
led by Prabhakaran and there is every likelihood they would eventually
also emerge as a significant political power with Karuna as their representation
in Parliament as opposed to the imbecile Prabhakaran who needs to face
the long arm of justice and does not have any capabilities towards democratic
politics being the imbecile he is!

In the meantime the USA and the rest of the powers that be in what
appears to be a subtle attempt to chastise, intiimidate and censure
the Sri Lankan nation need to think twice about their objectives and
the dangers it might have if the LTTE terrorists misinterpreted their
signals!This also extends to unmitigated international blackmail unless
the extensions of concern are structured with supportive exhortations
with both logistical and material support towards eliminating the Tamil
Tigers before they even to a degree further devastate Sri Lanka !